John Whelan is Off Portal and Off Net!

A major leap forward in HCI

If you ever doubted how useful and relevant academic research can be for GUI and usability development have a look at this research from NYU HCI group:

Worth watching all the way through. If you are stuck for time look from from around 2 minutes and 30 seconds for one minute.

Now let's work to develop a mobile equivalent. The desktop world has been trapped in the box of windows/Mac type HCI for well over twenty years. It is perhaps time to move on. In the same way mobile handsets have been trapped within rocker type controls and predictive text. There is always a better way and we should never stop (I know it's a cliche but it's through) thinking outside the proverbial b.

posted by alatto @ 10:15 AM